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Digital Dividends Realized: Hospital Patient Engagement Capabilities
Chelsea Richwine | January 13, 2026
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.”
This quote from Warren Buffett on investment portfolios could describe the evolution of patient engagement over the past decade. Much like a carefully built portfolio, the dividends from years of investments in health IT continue to emerge. It is useful to take stock of the dividends of our digitization efforts.
New Data on the Certified Health IT Market Now Available
Chelsea Richwine | September 10, 2025
New data is now available for public use that helps inform the history and current state of the certified health IT market. We explore that in this blog post, which is part of our new Digital Dividends blog series.
Read Full Post.How Digitization of Patient Access Empowered Patients
Chelsea Richwine | July 2, 2025
In 2024, more patients than ever before accessed their medical records online through web browsers and apps to manage their health – here’s why that matters.
Last year we put out a series of blog posts featuring measures and metrics we’ve tracked for ten or more years to assess progress on important ASTP/ONC mission activities. This year, we’re kicking off a new blog series titled, “Digital Dividends” which will discuss important innovations and opportunities in health care delivery,
A Decade of Data Examined: The Evolution of Electronic Prescribing
Chelsea Richwine | July 15, 2024
The electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) landscape continues to evolve and many positive advances have been made over the past decade. This blog post showcases the rapid growth in e-prescribing, steps taken towards laying the essential groundwork for the current state of e-prescribing, and what remains to be accomplished. This post is our third in the “A Decade of Data Examined” blog series.
Read Full Post.A Decade of Data Examined: Patient Access to Electronic Health Information
Chelsea Richwine | December 11, 2023
The world is better off and getting better, compared to popular opinion and what’s broadcast on the news, says Hans Rosling and his co-authors, using simple, comprehensive measures, in Factfulness. Sometimes taking a step back and looking at the big picture (and the data) is important to take stock of actual progress and the necessary work to come. In that spirit, we’re kicking off a new blog series: “A Decade of Data Examined.” These posts will provide a comprehensive look at measures and metrics we’ve tracked for ten or more years to assess progress on important ONC mission activities and help chart a path forward on the work still to come.
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